Anomalous Spike in Ocean Heat Content

2 06 2009

Guest Post by: Craig Loehle

In the paper

Levitus S., J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, R. A. Locarnini, H. E. Garcia, A. V. Mishonov (2009), Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems,Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L07608, doi:10.1029/2008GL037155

the long term trend of ocean heat content is reanalyzed to attempt to correct for bias in instrumentation, and the record is extended.  The graph below depicts the result.

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Categories : oceans

Lindzen’s Climate Sensitivity Talk: ICCC June 2, 2009

2 06 2009

Quick post, I’m in between sessions here in Washington DC.

Lindzen_graph_ICCCJune09

Dr. Richard Lindzen just gave a keynote talk on climate sensitivity and the state of climate science. Here is the powerpoint below: Read the rest of this entry »


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Categories : Science, climate_change